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Sengkang GRC MP Assoc Prof Jamus Lim has been hospitalised since the weekend due to pneumonia.<\/p>\n
The second-term MP said in a Facebook post on Monday (Oct 12): \u00a0“Some of you may have seen a video of my sniffling away in Parliament last week. As it turns out, that sniffling eventually developed into a bad case of Influenza A, before culminating in full-blown pneumonia.”<\/p>\n
He was seen wearing a mask in Parliament on Oct 6.<\/p>\n
Then, when speaking on the Finance (Income Taxes) Bill, he was seen pausing occasionally between sentences as he sniffled and wiped his nose<\/a>.<\/p>\n Marine Parade-Braddell Heights MP Diana Pang later walked over and handed him a tissue.<\/p>\n At that time, Assoc Prof Lim told the House that he thought it could be due to the haze.<\/p>\n But over the weekend, his blood oxygen level fell to the low 90s, and he ended up being admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n The blood oxygen level for healthy people is between 95 to 100.<\/p>\n Assoc Prof Lim said he will not be attending his regular MP duties, including Monday’s Meet-the-People Session (MPS), and other routine activities such as weekly house visits and estate walks.<\/p>\n However, his volunteers will continue to run MPS as usual.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I’ll do what I can on the back end to clear all appeal letters and to catch up on my email backlog, but I thank you for your patience in the meantime,” he added.<\/p>\n Speaking to the media on the sidelines of a community event in Sembawang on Sunday, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said there has been a rise in the number of people seeking treatment for respiratory ailments as haze conditions worsen.<\/p>\n “I think it is not just due to haze, but also because the haze season this year coincided with Influenza A season, so I think it compounded each other,” said Ong, who is also Coordinating Minister for Social Policies.<\/p>\n The health minister also announced that the Ministry of Health will be activating both the Public Health Preparedness Clinic (PHPC) scheme and the Haze Subsidy Scheme (HSS) from Oct 12.<\/p>\n [[nid:747265]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sengkang GRC MP Assoc Prof Jamus Lim has been hospitalised since the weekend due to pneumonia. The second-term MP said in a Facebook post on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Uptick in emergency department visits<\/h2>\n
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